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Ten days of dangerous talks, arts, films and excursions taking over iconic Sydney venues, all live and in person, 20–30 August 2026. Run, don't walk. Book your tickets now, before it's too late.

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ARTS EXCURSIONS FILMS TALKS WORKSHOPS
Sun 23 Aug 5:00pm Carriageworks
JUST BE PUNK
A call for a new generation, and those that may have forgotten, to “stop playing it safe”.
John Cameron Mitchell [USA], Yumi Stynes
Sun 23 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM
What America doesn’t want to admit about itself.
Peter Beinart [USA], Glenn Loury [USA], Maria Ressa [PHI], Nick Bryant, Rosalind Dixon
Sun 23 Aug 4:00pm Carriageworks
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
Why democracy is losing the information war.
Maria Ressa [PHI], Hamish Macdonald
Premiere art commission Carriageworks
FREE
HEAP
FREE
Ideas worth having are rarely clean, easy or safe.
Brook Andrew, Aretha Brown, Keg De Souza, Tarryn Gill, HOSSEI, Sophie Penkethman-Young, Tim Silver, EJ Son
Sat 22 Aug 4:00pm Carriageworks
THE CURE
Five competing remedies for a sick civilisation.
Hannah Diviney, Stan Grant, Jess Hill, Peter Singer, Scott Stephens
Sun 23 Aug 6:00pm Carriageworks
PUSSY RIOT'S POLITICAL GIRL
Life and fate in Russia.
Maria Alyokhina [RUS], Eric J. Breitenbach [CAN]
Sat 22 Aug 6:00pm Carriageworks
KILLING CULTURE
Is truly dangerous art still possible?
Maria Alyokhina [RUS], Brook Andrew, John Cameron Mitchell [USA], Sisonke Msimang
Sun 23 Aug 3:00pm Carriageworks
SELF-CENSORSHIP
There is no such thing as free (unconstrained) speech.
Glenn Loury [USA], Josh Szeps
Sat 22 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
Selling Fast
HOW TO START A CULT
Selling Fast
Inside of the world of coercion and control.
Anke Richter [GER/NZL], Laura McConnell, Sarah Steel
Sat 22 Aug 2:00pm Carriageworks
THE MYTH OF ANCIENT HATREDS
Is coexistence possible in the Middle East?
Ussama Makdisi [PAL/USA]
Sun 23 Aug 12:00pm Carriageworks
ENSHITTIFICATION
Life online really does get worse by the day.
Cory Doctorow [CAN/UK], Kirsten Drysdale
Sat 22 Aug 12:00pm Carriageworks
HERESIES
The necessity of saying the unsayable.
Richard Flanagan, Ann Mossop
Sun 23 Aug 1:30pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
EVIL WOMEN
Selling Fast
Why are we so fascinated by women who transgress?
Joanna Bourke [UK], Natasha Mitchell
Multiple sessions Chau Chak Wing Museum
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
AFTERLIVES, INTERRUPTED
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
Caring for the displaced dead.
Sat 22 Aug 5:00pm Carriageworks
BAD EDUCATION
What is learning for?
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Pasi Sahlberg, George Williams, Ann Mossop
Fri 21 Aug 6:30pm Sydney Town Hall
Sold Out
CANCELLED
THE PRICE OF IDEAS
Sold Out
CANCELLED
This session has been cancelled.
Salman Rushdie [USA/UK], SIMON LONGSTAFF
Multiple sessions Carriageworks
EXPOSURE
A world nearing breaking point.
Latai Taumoepeau, Mirabelle Wouters, Branch Nebula
Sun 23 Aug 2:00pm Carriageworks
FACING MORAL WRECKAGE
Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza.
Peter Beinart [USA]
SAT 22 AUG Carriageworks
DEEP SOULFUL SWEATS
Exorcise through exercise.
Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen
Sat 22 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
GOVERNING IN THE AGE OF STUPID
Why liberal democracy feels stuck.
Waleed Aly, Amy Remeikis, Greg Sheridan, Hannah Ferguson
Sun 23 Aug 1:00pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
HURT, HARM, HATE
Selling Fast
Emotional jurisprudence.
Antoinette Lattouf, Luke McNamara, Robynne Quiggin, Sami Shah, David Slucki, Tim Dean
Thu 20 Aug 6:30pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE (2026)
FILMS
Free speech survives.
Multiple sessions Carriageworks
FAKE
Are you brave enough to experience the internet live?
Mark Haslam, kdmindustries
Sun 23 Aug 12:00pm Carriageworks
AFTER EQUALITY
Why class will never disappear.
Hanno Sauer [NDL/GER], Matt Beard
Wed 26 Aug 6:00pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
ROCKING THE FOUNDATIONS (1985)
FILMS
The forgotten power of protest. 
Pat Fiske
Sat 22 Aug 4:00pm Carriageworks
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION
A near-future dystopian reckoning, with pictures.
Badiucao [CHN/AU], Melissa Chan [HK/TWN/US], Dan Ilic
Thu 27 Aug 6:00pm Dendy Newtown
Sold Out
FILMS
HATRED (1995)
Sold Out
FILMS
It’s easy to hate.
Shankari Chandran, Mitzi Goldman, Kelby Mason
Sun 23 Aug 3:00pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
LIFE AFTER DEATH
Selling Fast
Is the afterlife really just your brain lying to you?
Jesse Bering [USA], Fenella Kernebone
Sat 29 Aug 2:30pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
THE PIANO (1993)
FILMS
Passion is just another form of captivity.
Alecia Simmonds
Sat 22 Aug 11:30am Carriageworks
Selling Fast
NEGOTIATING THE END OF THE WORLD
Selling Fast
As the earth hurtles towards a hot and perilous future, which worldviews will prevail?
Clive Hamilton, Gwilym David Blunt
Multiple sessions The Mint
EXCURSIONS
COPY, PASTE, PROFIT
EXCURSIONS
Some of History’s Most Dangerous Ideas Never Went out of Style
Sat 29 Aug 5:00pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)
FILMS
The means justify the ends.
Multiple sessions Carriageworks
THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN
Experience the waters rising.
Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine
Sat 22 Aug 1:30pm Carriageworks
NOBODY BELONGS
Maybe some people were never meant to be included.
Jesse Bering [USA], Kate Holden, Neha Kale, Amy Thunig-McGregor, Tim Dean
Mon 24 Aug 9:15am Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
EXCURSIONS
PREPARING FOR EXTINCTION
EXCURSIONS
The seeds of our survival.
Sat 29 Aug 8:30pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
SALÒ (120 DAYS OF SODOM) (1976)
FILMS
A rare screening of the world's most reviled film.
Jane Mills 
Fri 28 Aug 7:00pm Heaps Normal Health Club
MELTDOWN
No panel. No polite conversation. Just pure sonic release.
Sun 23 Aug 11:30am Carriageworks
Selling Fast
THE NEXT WORLD WAR
Selling Fast
Will we recognise it when it arrives?
Amy Hestermann-Crane, Rain Liivoja, Paul Symon, Ed Coper
Sun 30 Aug 12:30pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
GOJIRA (GODZILLA) (1954)
FILMS
Some knowledge should never be born.
Danielle Celermajer
Sat 22 Aug 7:30pm Carriageworks
THE LAST SUPPER
Do you hunger for the truth?
Multiple sessions Australian Museum
EXCURSIONS
THE LIVING ARCHIVE
EXCURSIONS
What 200 years of collecting reveals about our future.
Sat 22 Aug 1:00pm Carriageworks
PARANOID NATIONALISM
Why empathy is killing our nation.
Ghassan Hage, Marcia Langton, David Leser, Michael Williams
Multiple sessions State Library NSW
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
STACKS OF DANGER
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
Challenging Histories. Underground. After Dark.
Sat 22 Aug 2:30pm Carriageworks
Sold Out
THE END OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Sold Out
A moment to resist, not retreat.
Philippe Bolopion [FRA/USA], Daniela Gavshon
Sun 30 Aug 3:00pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
HOLY MOTORS (2012)
FILMS
Identity is only performance. And no one is watching.
Les Stein
Multiple sessions Justice and Police Museum
Selling Fast
EXCURSIONS
HOLDING HATRED
Selling Fast
EXCURSIONS
Sydney’s darkest secrets unlocked.
Sat 29 Aug 12:30pm Attenzione
Sold Out
BANNED BOOK CLUB WITH BENJAMIN LAW
Sold Out
Literary lunch just got dangerous.
Benjamin Law
Sat 22 Aug 3:00pm Carriageworks
PORN WITHOUT PEOPLE
The end of consent.
Tilly Lawless, Dan Miller, Patrick Stokes, Emily van der Nagel, Aubrey Blanche
Sun 30 Aug 5:30pm Dendy Newtown
FILMS
SHORTBUS (2006)
FILMS
Real sex. Real intimacy. Real risk.
Denton Callander
Sat 22 Aug 3:00pm Carriageworks
LONGEVITY THREATENS THE FUTURE
What happens when death stops doing its job?
Lucinda Holdforth, Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
Sun 23 Aug 3:00pm Carriageworks
FREE
RAW ETHICS
FREE
Who gets heard?
Christopher Hall, Em Readman, William Salkeld, Georgia Fagan
Sat 22 Aug 7:00pm Carriageworks
THE LAST HUMANS
What if the biggest threat isn’t artificial intelligence, but belief in it?
Cory Doctorow [CAN/UK], Eleanor Gammell, Toby Walsh, Aubrey Blanche
Sun 23 Aug 7:00pm Carriageworks
FAREWELL TOUR
An epic love story of a band where every song is their last.
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Sat 22 Aug 11:00am Carriageworks
AGAINST GOODNESS
The dangers of moral certainty.
Jesse Bering [USA], Joanna Bourke [UK], Hanno Sauer [NDL/GER], Sisonke Msimang
Multiple sessions ABC Ultimo Centre
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
OFF THE RECORD
Sold Out
EXCURSIONS
Complicated pasts and untrustworthy futures.
Sat 22 Aug 4:00pm Carriageworks
YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE FAITH
How Christians can succeed today.
Greg Sheridan, SIMON LONGSTAFF
Sun 23 Aug 4:00pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
ON ANTISEMITISM
Selling Fast
Antisemitism never disappears. It reinvents itself.
Ruth Balint, Sarah Schwartz, David Slucki, SIMON LONGSTAFF
Sun 23 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
RETHINKING, THINKING ABOUT ISLAM
A radical reframe.
Aftab Malik, SIMON LONGSTAFF
Sun 23 Aug 2:30pm Carriageworks
Sold Out
TRUST ME, IT'S A CONSPIRACY
Sold Out
The problem with being so sure.
Ariel Bogle, Harry Hobbs, Anke Richter [GER/NZL], Patrick Stokes
Sat 22 Aug 6:00pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
THE WITCHES
Selling Fast
Magic as the only logical response to a broken world.
Emma Quilty, Lucianne Tonti, Caroline Tully, Natasha Mitchell
Sat 22 Aug 1:00pm Carriageworks
Sold Out
BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR
Sold Out
Helping the poor is very good business.
Mark Considine, Rick Morton, Emily Roy, Natasha Mitchell
Sun 23 Aug 1:00pm Carriageworks
DANCING WITH ELEPHANTS
On being sovereign in a dangerous world.
Bob Carr, Malcolm Turnbull, SIMON LONGSTAFF
Sat 22 Aug 10:30am Carriageworks
THE GOOD LIFE STATE
Why liberalism’s rivals are winning.
Melissa Chan [HK/TWN/US], Alexandre Lefebvre, Ussama Makdisi [PAL/USA], Peter Hartcher
Sat 22 Aug 12:00pm Carriageworks
Selling Fast
DECOLONISATION IS NOT AN ECONOMIC POLICY
Selling Fast
Can we decolonise in a capitalist world?
Duane Fraser, Celeste Liddle, Glenn Loury [USA]
Sun 23 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
AND ALSO WITH YOU
Faith, doubt and the long way out.
Simon Vaughan
Sat 22 Aug 10:00am Carriageworks
UNEARTHING DANGER
Hear from the artists of HEAP.
Brook Andrew, Aretha Brown, Keg De Souza, Tarryn Gill, HOSSEI, Sophie Penkethman-Young, Tim Silver, EJ Son, Sophie O’Brien
Sun 23 Aug 11:00am Carriageworks
THE ILLUSION OF IMPARTIALITY
Is claiming ‘neutrality' the most dangerous lie in public life?
Pat Abboud, Michael Pembroke, Tim Dean
Thu 20 Aug 6:30pm Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
EXCURSIONS
CONTEMPORARY ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS
EXCURSIONS
Does art matter any more?
Suzanne Cotter, Benjamin Law
Multiple sessions Carriageworks
FREE
CIRCLE OF CHAIRS
FREE
Unpick modern life’s most dangerous ethical dilemmas, together.
Sat 22 Aug 4:30pm Carriageworks
NON-MONOGAMY MAKES US BETTER PARENTS
If families are changing, should our assumptions change too?
Evolving Love Project, Rebecca Huntley, Tim Dean
Tue 25 Aug 4:00pm The Ethics Centre
Sold Out
HOW TO SAY THE WRONG THING
Sold Out
Free speech, offence and the art of difficult conversations.
Monty Badami
Fri 28 Aug 11:00am The Ethics Centre
HOW TO DO CONFLICT AT WORK
The skill nobody teaches.
Tim Duggan
Thu 27 Aug 4:00pm The Ethics Centre
HOW TO FILE AN FOI
The skill governments hope you never learn.
Cam Wilson
Wed 26 Aug 4:00pm The Ethics Centre
Selling Fast
HOW TO USE AI WITHOUT BECOMING ITS EMPLOYEE
Selling Fast
Reclaiming technology from the cult of efficiency.
Aubrey Blanche
DANGEROUS BOOKS X GLEEBOOKS
Where you can buy not (yet) banned books.
Sun 23 Aug 11:15am Carriageworks
MEET ME IN THE FIELD
A Song of Revelation.
FRI 21 AUG // CARRIAGEWORKS
Schools Day
Your turn to think dangerously.
Aubrey Blanche, Tim Dean, Daniel Finlay, Cory Doctorow [CAN/UK]
Pat Abboud
THE ILLUSION OF IMPARTIALITY
Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen
DEEP SOULFUL SWEATS
Waleed Aly
Maria Alyokhina [RUS]
Brook Andrew
Monty Badami
HOW TO SAY THE WRONG THING
Ruth Balint
ON ANTISEMITISM
Matt Beard
AFTER EQUALITY
Peter Beinart [USA]
Jesse Bering [USA]
Aubrey Blanche
Ariel Bogle
TRUST ME, IT'S A CONSPIRACY
Philippe Bolopion [FRA/USA]
THE END OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Joanna Bourke [UK]
Eric J. Breitenbach [CAN]
PUSSY RIOT'S POLITICAL GIRL
Aretha Brown
Nick Bryant
TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM
Denton Callander
SHORTBUS (2006)
John Cameron Mitchell [USA]
Bob Carr
DANCING WITH ELEPHANTS
Danielle Celermajer
GOJIRA (GODZILLA) (1954)
Melissa Chan [HK/TWN/US]
Shankari Chandran
HATRED (1995)
Mark Considine
BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR
Ed Coper
THE NEXT WORLD WAR
Suzanne Cotter
CONTEMPORARY ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Gwilym David Blunt
NEGOTIATING THE END OF THE WORLD
Keg De Souza
Tim Dean
Hannah Diviney
THE CURE
Rosalind Dixon
TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM
Cory Doctorow [CAN/UK]
Kirsten Drysdale
ENSHITTIFICATION
Tim Duggan
HOW TO DO CONFLICT AT WORK
Georgia Fagan
RAW ETHICS
Hannah Ferguson
GOVERNING IN THE AGE OF STUPID
Daniel Finlay
Schools Day
Pat Fiske
ROCKING THE FOUNDATIONS (1985)
Richard Flanagan
HERESIES
Duane Fraser
DECOLONISATION IS NOT AN ECONOMIC POLICY
Eleanor Gammell
THE LAST HUMANS
Daniela Gavshon
THE END OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Tarryn Gill
Mitzi Goldman
HATRED (1995)
Stan Grant
THE CURE
HOSSEI
Ghassan Hage
PARANOID NATIONALISM
Christopher Hall
RAW ETHICS
Clive Hamilton
NEGOTIATING THE END OF THE WORLD
Peter Hartcher
THE GOOD LIFE STATE
Mark Haslam
FAKE
Amy Hestermann-Crane
THE NEXT WORLD WAR
Jess Hill
THE CURE
Harry Hobbs
TRUST ME, IT'S A CONSPIRACY
Kate Holden
NOBODY BELONGS
Lucinda Holdforth
LONGEVITY THREATENS THE FUTURE
Rebecca Huntley
NON-MONOGAMY MAKES US BETTER PARENTS
Dan Ilic
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION
Neha Kale
NOBODY BELONGS
Fenella Kernebone
LIFE AFTER DEATH
Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine
THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN
SIMON LONGSTAFF
Marcia Langton
PARANOID NATIONALISM
Antoinette Lattouf
HURT, HARM, HATE
Benjamin Law
Tilly Lawless
PORN WITHOUT PEOPLE
Alexandre Lefebvre
THE GOOD LIFE STATE
David Leser
PARANOID NATIONALISM
Celeste Liddle
DECOLONISATION IS NOT AN ECONOMIC POLICY
Rain Liivoja
THE NEXT WORLD WAR
Glenn Loury [USA]
Evolving Love Project
NON-MONOGAMY MAKES US BETTER PARENTS
Hamish Macdonald
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
Ussama Makdisi [PAL/USA]
Aftab Malik
RETHINKING, THINKING ABOUT ISLAM
Kelby Mason
HATRED (1995)
Laura McConnell
HOW TO START A CULT
Luke McNamara
HURT, HARM, HATE
Dan Miller
PORN WITHOUT PEOPLE
Jane Mills 
SALÒ (120 DAYS OF SODOM) (1976)
Natasha Mitchell
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
BAD EDUCATION
Rick Morton
BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR
Ann Mossop
Sisonke Msimang
Branch Nebula
EXPOSURE
Sophie O’Brien
UNEARTHING DANGER
Michael Pembroke
THE ILLUSION OF IMPARTIALITY
Sophie Penkethman-Young
Robynne Quiggin
HURT, HARM, HATE
Emma Quilty
THE WITCHES
Em Readman
RAW ETHICS
Amy Remeikis
GOVERNING IN THE AGE OF STUPID
Maria Ressa [PHI]
Anke Richter [GER/NZL]
Emily Roy
BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR
Salman Rushdie [USA/UK]
THE PRICE OF IDEAS
Pasi Sahlberg
BAD EDUCATION
William Salkeld
RAW ETHICS
Hanno Sauer [NDL/GER]
Sarah Schwartz
ON ANTISEMITISM
Sami Shah
HURT, HARM, HATE
Greg Sheridan
Tim Silver
Alecia Simmonds
THE PIANO (1993)
Peter Singer
THE CURE
David Slucki
EJ Son
Sarah Steel
HOW TO START A CULT
Les Stein
HOLY MOTORS (2012)
Scott Stephens
Patrick Stokes
Yumi Stynes
JUST BE PUNK
Paul Symon
THE NEXT WORLD WAR
Josh Szeps
SELF-CENSORSHIP
Latai Taumoepeau
EXPOSURE
Amy Thunig-McGregor
NOBODY BELONGS
Lucianne Tonti
THE WITCHES
Caroline Tully
THE WITCHES
Malcolm Turnbull
DANCING WITH ELEPHANTS
Simon Vaughan
AND ALSO WITH YOU
Toby Walsh
THE LAST HUMANS
George Williams
BAD EDUCATION
Michael Williams
PARANOID NATIONALISM
Cam Wilson
HOW TO FILE AN FOI
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
FAREWELL TOUR
Mirabelle Wouters
EXPOSURE
Badiucao [CHN/AU]
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION
kdmindustries
FAKE
Emily van der Nagel
PORN WITHOUT PEOPLE
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